Pitting it squarely against its House counterpart, the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee is crafting a spending bill that adheres to the funding limits set by the 2011 Budget Control Act. The panel announced July 20 it intends to build a defense spending bill that would appropriate $513.1 billion in base funding and $82.1 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations for fiscal year 2018. Though the base budget total is less than the $603 billion requested by the Trump administration and well...
